There must be something about Kurt Russell, because I immediately thought of Overboard, inarguably a terrible, stupid movie. And yet, when it’s on TBS and I’m folding laundry or cooking or something, I always stop flipping and watch it. My husband and I have even been known to say, “What are you looking at? Eat your checkers.”
Similarly, I agree with Ghostbusters 2. When we watch an actor mangling an accent, we will simply say, “Upper vest side.”
This movie is universally accepted among my friends as the one movie you cannot shut off–at least until after the “buh buh buh buh” scene.
The Villain Arnorld S. as the "Handsome Stranger" with Ann Margaret and Kirk Dougles. It’s basically a road runner cartoon with real people. It even has a scene where Kirk D. runs into a solid wall where Arnorld and Ann have just driven thru the “hole” I think I’m the only person who has ever seen this movie, and I paid for it at a theatre.
No, I’ve seen it, and so has Pepper Mill, who made the same comment you did.
I insist that Big Trouble in Little China stay on the list. Judging from a lot f Carpenter’s other efforts, I don;t think he intended this to be as over-the-top as it was. To mee, its consummately doog – I can’t help watching it, even though I know it’s full of problems.
The Monkees’ cinema venture, Head. It can’t even be redeemed by the appearance of Frank Zappa.
Frank Zappa’s cinema venture, 200 Motels. It can’t even be redeemed by the appearance of Frank Zappa, either.
But you can’t look away.
I’ve also seen The Villain, albeit on TV. The part I remember is when they’re pulling Kirk Douglas along under a wagon and he’s riding his spurs like little wheels.
I’m not sure if 200 Motels is good, doog, or what. All I know is I like it, and I’m a bit pissed off that it isn’t on DVD.
However, I know one movie that is absolutely doog: The Black Gestapo. Sex, violence, terrible acting, and ham-fisted social commentary all wrapped up in classic 1970’s style “Blaxploitation”. Not only that, one of the main characters is played by the same guy who played Mac on Night Court.
what about Heavenly Creatures?
Bedazzled. Not the one with Peter Cook but the remake with Brendan Fraser. Can’t seem to switch the channel whenever it’s on. Must be because of Liz Hurley.
Van Helsing. I don’t know how it will stand the test of time, but it’s got to be a contender.
Overboard, most definitely. I’m compelled to watch this everytime it is on. It’s a weird, brain-sucking sort of movie…
Someone else mentioned Midnight Madness. When I was a kid in the 80’s this was on every freakin’ day on HBO. I must’ve seen it 50 times. “Faga Beefy!”
Any movie with James Woods is consummate doog… just this side of van Damme and Seagal.
He exudes doogness at every turn.
Agreed – and the two **Mummy ** movies, too. (The Scorpion King isn’t in the same league of cheesiness, to my mind) These fit perfectlyu the category of awful but watchable, which is what “Doog” was defined as. That they were deliberately made that way (They were, weren’t they. Please don’t tell me they could’ve made movies this cheesy and not been aware of it) is irrelevant.
For pure unique weirdness may I suggest Geroge Romero’s Knightriders.
Ed Harris (yes that one) stars as an Arthuresque Knight resplended in Armour with his lady fair. The opening shows him standing in a lake whiping himself with a stick. Then he sleeps with his lady fair in the woods. The movie begins to show its true strangness as dons his helmet and rides off on his mighty steed.
Did I mention his steed is a motorcycle? Yep. Try to picture a Ren fair where knights joust on Motor cycles.
They are a travelling troup just doing their “thing” and the man is against them. All threatens to fall apart when commercialism rears its ugly head and liek a siren draws a few Knights under Morgan (Tom Savani… Yes that one) away.
It is slow in places but just oddly entertaining.
highlights:
Brother Blue as Merlin. What can be said about Brother blue except that he is so… well Brother Blue.
Steven King trying to act as a stupid Rube.
Savani Breaking down and blubbing.
Savani posing in leather shorts baring all else (A Retna burning experience)
The Friar and his oversized girlfreind caught in a compromising situation (Almost as powerful as Savani’s exposure)
The Jousting scenes… Well done I mean it. You wanna watch guys throwing each other off of Bikes with poles and maces this film does not cop out.
Ed Harris… Sure his character has a huge stick up his butt (probably a jousting accident) but Harris does it so well. He brings depth and dignity to a man who is essentially a deluded man with a weird King Arthur/motorcycle fetish.
Yes it can be slow at times… (I have to repeat that) but it is really hard to say what exactly has to be cut because it works so well… sort of… It does…I just can’t explain it.
Magnum Force and Sudden Impact. The Original “Drity Harry” was so cool, so great so, you know, Clint that the only way to follow it up was insane over the top cartoonishness, which is Magnum Force. Sudden Impact straddles the line between attempted great art and way way out camp so well that it possibly only makes sense when viewed under the influence of a very precise drug cocktail. Terrible, yet compulsively watchable movies.
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“Theater of Blood”: How can you not like a movie that gives you such insane scenery chewing from all concerned, impossibly inept police work, and the shortest Cliff Notes bio into several of Shakespeare’s major plays?
Agreed – plus, it has Vincent Price and Diana Rigg! and it rewrites Shakespeare:
“It was a pound of flesh, wasn’t it? This is two ounces short.”
Titanic
Visually, one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. The attention to detail was exquisite. The costumes, the lighting, the pretty actors…all were lovely. And, of course, the bigger plot, that which was based on fact, was incredibly compelling.
But that love story…it ruined the movie. It was downright ridiculous, right down to Rose tossing that necklace into the water.
I watch this at least once a year. The only detail that ever bothers me is that there is smoke coming from all four funnels, when only three of them were actually funnels, and one of them was purely cosmetic.
But every time, I just wait for Jack to say to Rose “Okay, your turn in the water, let me get on the door.”
Doesn’t mean I don’t cry like a little girl with a skinned knee everydamntime, though. 
And after perusing my video collection last night, I would like to add Cutthroat Island (pure doog–almost nauseatingly so), The Shadow (because Tim Curry gets an automatic pass in anything), and Death Race 2000, which I can’t believe hasn’t been mentioned yet.
I actually like The Shadow. Not saying it’s a great movie, but I really enjoy it. But I also love Hudson Hawk, Con Air, Tremors, Starship Troopers, The Mummy and Mummy Returns, and the original Ghostbusters, which is too good a movie to belong on any list of bad or “doog” movies.